Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

hacoach The story is pretty familiar, 3 sailors get 24 hours shore leave, and sing and tap dance there way through New York City circa 1949. The film seems to harken back to a few years earlier when every mothers son was going off to save the World, and a 24 hour leave could be the last chance to be alive before heading out to The South Pacific or tangling with Uboats in the Atlantic. With the War as a backdrop the film would have little more poignancy and charm. Three sailors who have never been within a thousand miles of a real battle, and biggest problem is boredom, desperately need to fall madly in love within 24 hours, is a bit silly, but who cares , certainly not me, when the cast is charming and the songs catchy. The entertainment outweighs the shell of a story. The film begins with a bang, the show stopping number of show stopping numbers; "New York,New York" . 1949 New York was sort of the unofficial capital of the "New" world. This is a romanticized version of New York to be sure, a sweet Disney version of it, a city of museums, dance studios, night clubs and tourist attractions, even the police are whimsical. Anyone seeing this and thinking its the real New York City will be disappointed , its the flip side of more realistic movies from that era like "On the Waterfront" or "Sweet smell of success" but to be frank it's a New York we would all like to live in, or revisit many times especially with Navy men dancing around the top of the Empire States building and pretty cab drivers on every corner, a city of magic and magical happenings.Of the three sailors Sinatra comes off as the sweetest, Kelly comes off a bit strange, feeling it is his mission to find the girl he spots on a poster, and spends the next hour doing just that, but it's okay because she wouldn't have it any other way.-hey, its a musical after all.There is a nice ballet sequence with Kelly towards the end, that foreshadows his work on " American in Paris"In short it's a delightful way to spend 2 hours and wonderful entertainment. As well as an interesting time capsule of New York in the Golden age of post war America.

Leofwine_draca Initially I thought I'd seen this film before; it's a musical featuring Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as a couple of sailors on shore leave, indulging in plenty of adventures in a vibrant and bustling city. Then I realised I'd seen the very similar predecessor, ANCHORS AWEIGH, of which this is a virtually identical follow-up.Sad to say I found this resultant film a bit of a letdown, even though Gene Kelly considered it his personal favourite. With no less than seven leading characters here, the genius of Kelly is lost in the mix a bit, and there's no stand-out scene like THAT dance-off with an animated Jerry from ANCHORS AWEIGH.Still, fans of film musicals will no doubt find this fun, if dated. The song and dance routines are as enthusiastic as ever, and Sinatra is always good value for money. But there seemed to be a greater emphasis here on comedy over music, and I confess that I found one of the female characters (Betty Garrett's) extremely irritating, which ruined my enjoyment a little. In addition, Jules Munshin's third sailor seems one too many, and I think this film would have been better off as a whole without him. Vera-Ellen is lovely, though.

MartinHafer Three sailors (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin) arrive in New York and have a day of shore leave. Oddly, they spend the beginning of the movie running wildly about town seeing all the popular sites. Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think THAT would be the agenda for most sailors! Later, in an odd twist, they meet up with three girls--and mostly (especially in the case of Betty Garrett) they do the pursuing! And what do these frisky sailors want to do now that they've got dates--yes, hang out in night clubs! "On the Town" is a highly regarded musical. Because of this, I feel a bit odd because I was not particularly impressed by it. The film started very well with the "New York, New York" sequence and maintained its momentum for some time, but after a while it started to drag and the quality of the musical numbers seemed to flag as well. To me, the low-light was Gene Kelly's LONG dance routine--it just seemed interminably long. The over film wasn't terrible...it just wasn't very good later in the film. Uneven but worth seeing.By the way, nearly every MGM film from the golden era includes several shorts (including a cartoon) to make it feel like an afternoon at the movies in the old days. Well, oddly, "On the Town" did NOT include this--for shame Turner Entertainment, we want these shorts!!

daviddaphneredding Gene Kelly, Vera-Ellen, and Ann Miller again showed that they were super dancers, Frank Sinatra exhibited his unequaled singing ability,and Jules Munshin showed that he was a nut. The storyline was simple: three sailors were on a twenty-four-hour pass in New York, (though most of the movie was filmed in Los Angeles), and each made the best of it by finding a female companion and touring the city. While Betty Comden and Adolph Green let the public know via this classic that they were adept at writing screenplays, the movie lacked good acting, though the music was entertaining. I personally liked the songs "New York, New York", "On the Town", and, my favorite, the dance number "A Day In New York". To reiterate, the acting was bland, the story was passable, but the music was great; in fact, the music made it worth the while.